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The 'Political Correctness Gone Mad' Thread

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Some good news
The University of Chicago, one of America’s most prestigious and selective universities, is warning incoming students starting this fall not to expect safe spaces and a trigger-free existence during their four-year journey through academia.

In a letter sent to the class of 2020, university officials said one of the defining characteristics of the school was its unwavering commitment to freedom of inquiry and expression. Civility and mutual respect are vital to the campus culture, the letter states, but not at the expense of shielding students from unpopular opinions or ideas.

“Our commitment to academic freedom means that we do not support so-called “trigger warnings,” we do not cancel invited speakers because their topics might prove controversial, and we do not condone the creation of intellectual “safe spaces” where individuals can retreat from ideas and perspectives at odds with their own,” the letter states.

The University of Chicago is consistently ranked one of the top universities in the world, and also one of the most selective. Only about 8 percent of the more than 31,000 people who applied to enter the class of 2020 were accepted by the school.

The warning from Chicago stands in sharp contrast to many other American universities that have gone out of their way to coddle students by protecting them from ideas they may find offensive or disturbing.

The University of Chicago is having none of it. To drive home the point, the letter to students includes a link to a report on freedom of expression issued by the university in January 2015. The report quotes a former president of the University, Hanna Holborn Gray, as saying that “education should not be intended to make people comfortable, it is meant to make them think.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/08/24/u-chicago-to-frosh-no-safe-spaces-here.html
 
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People don't fucking get it. Wonder Woman is just ONE ideal of a woman. Remember how the Greek and Norse and all those civilizations of antiquity had various deities that represented the myriad aspects of humanity? Wonder Woman is like that. All superheroes and supervillains are this way. They're modern mythology. Rejecting Wonder Woman is rejecting part of ourselves. Yes, deities of old were simplistic in nature while humanity is complex. That's the fucking point. It attempts to break down the complexity into simpler parts to help better understand our nature and ourselves.

It's not like Lady Death is being extolled here. It's freaking Wonder Woman... but because she's blue eyed aka white and has BARE THIGHS rip i am sorry this outrage can't stand. If you stop and think about the Wonder Woman character for about 10 seconds, her wearing what she does is actually practical. She's based on ancient Greece right? How often do we see the similarly invulnerable Hercules wearing not much clothing? Since Herc and WW are invincible warriors, they value freedom of movement. Of course they would. And since they are ancient Greeks they don't have the same body hangups modern Americans do. ETC

People are also too caught up on WW's appearance. Her appearance isn't what makes her great. It's her courage and heroism that makes her great.

But BARE THIGHS (I see hot chicks in shorts all the fucking time and yes i admit it's awesome please don't tell anyone)
 
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For anyone looking for news sources I found this site

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/

It lists news sites by their slant in a on judgemental way so if you want to find center, left, or right news sources of varying leanings it can be a great resource

It also helped me discover a disturbing truth that "Stars and Stripes" the official newspaper of the US military, is a balanced news source and has some really good human interest pieces about things like the citizens in Iraq or Afghanistan who do infrastructure work like traffic control and policing, reports on things like the US and NATOs new arctic defense plan that as well fairly honest assessments on the condition of things in the different theaters including a story talking about how only 57% of Afghanistan is actually under government control

How the fuck is the US military paper doing a better job than actual reporters? I guess soldiers don't like to be BSed by other soldiers
 
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How the fuck is the US military paper doing a better job than actual reporters? I guess soldiers don't like to be BSed by other soldiers
I'm not surprised. The military is a-political, has longer terms, a different hierarchy, it's own rules so yeah, internal military sources will largely be unbiased. The whole structure of the military is generally immune to left/right bias. They simply follow orders no matter who gives them.

America would have had several coups in its history if the military was even slightly politicized.
 
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Of course when they say that the UK hasn't moved on from colonialism and the US hasn't moved on from segregation and slavery what they really mean is a bunch of unemployable sociology majors with victim complexes don't want to move on from things that have had no effect on their lives because then they might have to contribute something real to society.
 
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You know? My favorite character in Scott Pilgrim (both the movie and the books) was Wallace, Scott's gay roommate. I am not gay, but liked him all the same.

When I was a kid, She-Ra and Wonder Woman were two of my favorite superheroes. I am not a woman, but liked them anyway.

I've spent my whole life watching Godzilla movies, films that typically have all Japanese casts. White male characters in the Godzilla series are few and far between, and in some cases where white males were inserted into the film for the US release (like the original film or King Kong Vs. Godzilla), I actually prefer the original unaltered cut of the film. And before anyone says "But you only watch those for the monsters", Dr Serasawa from the original film is one of my favorite movie heroes of all time, and the scene between Mr. Shindo and Godzilla in Godzilla Vs. King Ghidorah is one of the very best scenes in the series BECAUSE of the human element and emotions involved.

And Wall-E is my favorite Pixar character...a fucking box on treads with binoculars for a head.

My point is why is everyone so obsessed with having their labels represented in film? Maybe the real white male privilege is that I just don't give a shit. I don't sit around watching Creed and thinking "Man this movie is great, but it'd be SOOOO much better if Adonis was a white male! I should be represented by the youthful protagonist of this film!".

I like characters that are interesting, likeable, and believable. It doesn't matter what they look like, what is between their legs, or who or what they are romantically linked too. Are they well written and interesting? Great That's all I need.

So this whole "Lets make this character gay/bi" when the character (to my knowledge) has never had those traits just feels forced and pandering to the numbskulls that care about that shit. I mean if those labels can just be flipped or changed, why not make Wonder Woman a transsexual? Or fuck it, just make her a man from the start. What's the difference?

And PS, making Wonder Woman Bi would only cause more of those straight white men you hate so much to objectify her and just watch the movie to watch her make out with other hot woman and get involved in 3 ways. It would be the cinematic equivalent to HLA, so good job.
 
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My point is why is everyone so obsessed with having their labels represented in film? Maybe the real white male privilege is that I just don't give a shit. I don't sit around watching Creed and thinking "Man this movie is great, but it'd be SOOOO much better if Adonis was a white male! I should be represented by the youthful protagonist of this film!".
It's not. I never look at race either and I've been raised on a very healthy dose of western culture since I was 4.

I didn't look at Star Wars or Star Trek and wonder "Why aren't there people that look like me?" I went "Wow, these are some amazing visuals. I'm so entertained!"

And as I grew older and actually started understanding the stories, it was all about vouching for the good guys and hating on the bad guys.

The skin problem was manufactured in the 90's when moronic college professors decided that they had all the answers in the world and started pushing the "diversity" dogma. I don't know a single brown person that has ever complained about representation that didn't go to college. They go to college and enter easy af sociology and social studies liberal arts and humanities course and come out whining about representation.
 
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@MrMister @Pillow slave! The Left has been hijacked by people who aren't actually Liberal at all. They like to think they are but they're not.

Let's look at Liberals and Conservatives, a Liberal and a Conservative are not interchangeable, they can agree on things, cooperate and debate but overall they both have pros and cons about them. Together they can form a good society as any one side gaining a monopoly eventually becomes completely corrupt, Left or Right.

Now let's look at the hardcore zealots of the "Left" and the Right, these people are completely interchangeable because their rhetoric is pretty much the same, just different goals. The book burning, science blaming, racist rhetoric of the hardcore right is nearly identical to the "leftist" safespace college kids. The crazy College students shouting down white people would very well be the racists shouting down blacks during the civil rights movement, they're the same hateful breed, different target. What you see in schools now is a corrupted and distorted version of Liberal ideology.

Sadly these people need to hate, need to rage about something and need a movement, no matter what the cause is. These schools have created monsters, their social experiment has gone out of control.

It doesn't matter in the end if you're Liberal or Conservative, the hardcore of the factions can switch on a dime, easily swayed and don't care about hypocrisy. They're dangerous, not because of any political leaning but because they're like mad dogs, you cannot control how far they'll go or who they'll turn on.
 
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:applause

Well said.

I was talking to a conservative friend of mine recently about liberalism vs classic liberalism. Even in one of his conservative websites he shared with me, it compared classic liberalism to true conservatism in a favorable light, while at the same utterly despising liberalism, at it is known today. My issue is, and it's one I've raised many times on this forum, is the fact that we call these people liberal at all. What "liberalism" represents today is nothing like the liberalism of old. I don't see the point of having political labels at all if we apply them to people who do not uphold the values of those labels. Most of them have become so bastardized that they have lost all meaning.
 
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The weird part to me is that people are going to focus on the boy on boy aspect of it while I am sitting here trying to wrap my head around why the fuck four year olds are playing Spin the Bottle in the first place.

That is some sick sexual deviance going on and that teacher is fucked in the head.
 
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This was my first thought as well. I cannot fathom the thought process that encourages a teacher (and I use that term lightly for some of them, as there are a number who don't pursue degrees in the field and just do it like a babysitting job until they get another one) to have the children play Spin The Bottle.
 
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I like white privilege, it reminds me of the "original sin"

You are born flawed for some great crime committed by your ancestor, a mystical crime that goes beyond literal and has effected reality not just currently but for eternity, and deserve scorn and misery from the pure. Your only hope to live a happy life is to devote your life to reaching approval of the one group who has to power name you clean. Until then you must spend every moment focusing on how much of a bad person you for being born into sin and how it is only fair that you and everyone like you must spend the rest of your lives like this until, hopefully someday in the far future, those wise and unquestionably holy people lift the pain off your back, if at least temporarily.

its enough to make some a bit blasphemous

but when god gives you lemons you find a new god because this one is clearly broken and if the new one likes to demand a "Heil" and for you to shed a bit of blood for the fatherland every now and then, well that seems downright reasonable to life above
 
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Christianity already gets crapped on and rightfully so. It's been getting crapped on very hard by the very same people who would defend Islam and call Islamic culture's treatment of women "simply a product of their culture" that shouldn't be infringed upon. Those same people, instead of criticizing Islam just as much as they do Christianity, would rather deflect an attack on Islam and instead attack Christianity for doing the same thing, despite Christianity having already been attacked in the mainstream media justly (yet when one attacks Islam, they are called an Islamophobe).

I have no love for the Abrahamic religions, so I will attack all of 'em as I feel they need to be attacked when they infringe upon another person's well being.
 
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People get attacked for being Islamophobe saying all Muslims coming into the country should be banned based on what some of the extremist. Or when they see a person they think is Muslim on the street and attack them for Islam. The problem is most people are not attacking the religion they are attacking the people of that region who condemn the extremist.
 
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